Yale endures

It was the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. The horror of the morning was fresh. In a residential courtyard at Yale, there was music.

“I remember being in the Branford courtyard that night, and spontaneously a group of students — bagpipers — came through playing ‘Amazing Grace,’” Joseph Gordon, then deputy dean of Yale College, recalled in an oral history published by the Yale Daily News in 2011 to mark the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. “You heard it coming from the next courtyard over, and it was just magical. It was really incredibly comforting.”

The sound cast a spell, channeling feeling, bolstering spirits, fostering a sense of community as listeners processed their individual response, Gordon recalls, noting that it was an early sign that the Yale community would pull together in the raw aftermath of a disorienting tragedy.

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A U.S. Special Operations Command major who saved a comrade from being dragged away by enemy fighters in Afghanistan in 2012 has been authorized by the U.S. House and Senate to receive the nation’s highest combat valor award. A bill that would authorize the president to award the Medal of Honor to Maj. Nicholas Dockery received unanimous approval in the Senate Tuesday night after Sen Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, brought it up for a vote along with bills to award two other Medals of Honor.... Read more here